PGMcGee wrote: > Having just come back from Germany, my husband and I are looking for a good > German restaurant on the Peninsula. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. I haven't found a really good one. There's a place on lower University Ave. in Palo Alto (Elbe?) that I last tried about two years ago, which was quite hokey but had pretty good food. I haven't tried the San Jose places which others will no doubt mention. However, I'm mainly responding to recommend a place in San Francisco: Suppenkuchen, on Hayes Street. They have good food and some awesome beers.
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Someone wrote: PGMcGee wrote: : > Having just come back from Germany, my husband and I are looking for a good : > German restaurant on the Peninsula. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. : : I haven't found a really good one. There's a place on lower University Ave. : in Palo Alto (Elbe?) that I last tried about two years ago, which was quite : hokey but had pretty good food. I haven't tried the San Jose places which : others will no doubt mention. However, I'm mainly responding to recommend : a place in San Francisco: Suppenkuchen, on Hayes Street. They have good : food and some awesome beers. Elbe hasn't been so good lately, and they took duck off the menu sometime this year. They do have things like sauerbraten, wiener schnitzel, red cabbage and spaetzel. I used to love their rinderrouladen but they changed from serving two small ones to one big one that was too dry. That sort of subtle change in the direction of worse seems to have been creeping into their food for the last year or so. Hardy's in Sunnyvale is good. It's evidently family operated, includes soup and salad with the meal, and has a number of good beers on tap. It's on Evelyn in downtown Sunnyvale and is closed Sunday and (I think) Monday. They also serve the 2nd best strudel around, and they serve it warm and mit Schlag. (My bias is toward desserts that are not overly sweet, so if you like them that way, you won't share my preferences.) The best strudel is at the Pine Brook Inn, in a shopping center at Alameda de las Pulgas and Ralston in Belmont. The food there is good, the staff friendly, though I give Hardy's the edge. And the execrable Black Forest in Los Altos has gone out of business! That was a restaurant that needed to die. It had been a pretty good German restaurant, then closed and reopened some months later as a German-Italian restaurant. Not German-Italian fusion, but some sort of Axis collaboration. You opened the menu and on the right were about 8 German entrees and on the left about 8 Italian entrees. All covered with the same awful sauce...
NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Nov 1998 21:32:31 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Xref: alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu ba.food:34355 >Elbe hasn't been so good lately, and they took duck off the menu sometime >this year. I was in Palo Alto a couple of weeks ago and wound up working late. Was too hungry to face the drive back to Marin County. I ate with my companion at Elbe because it was the only place without a wait of the five or six I checked out, hardly a recommendation. I am not much for German food and so am hardly the best reviewer. However, I was quite disappointed. Service was poor. In fact, our waitress toward the end of our meal and said someone else would take care of us. That person never showed and we had to get up from our table to track down our check. Food uninspired. Regards, Gerald McGowin